Perhaps I'm missing something but just for kicks I've copy the code below, changed the xls location, and the FROM table but I'm unsuccessful in getting this to work. It compains about the OLE DB provider. Any ideas?

I need to start reading the excel data from a certain point in the excel file. All rows starting at cell B35. If need be I could read the entire excel file, not use headers, search for the value in B35 that I want to start at by using 'WHERE F1 like' but I'd prefer not to.